The disease that makes you deathly afraid of water

In the United States, rabies is mostly found in wild animals like bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes. However, in many other countries dogs still carry rabies, and most rabies deaths in people around the world are caused by dog bites.

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In the United States, rabies is mostly found in wild animals like bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes. However, in many other countries dogs still carry rabies, and most rabies deaths in people around the world are caused by dog bites.

[cwzwack]

People joke, but Michael Scott was right. "Rabies causes fear of water."

[kellygreen]

Once symptoms show it's not nearly fatal, it is 100% fatal

[juliandean]

Rest In Peace buddy, I'm so sorry to see that you contracted this condition, I had been bitten by a bat in the UK and thankfully a third doctor took me seriously than the first two and I had the 4 anti rabies jabs needed over a period of a few weeks.

[polskabalaclava]

Not exactly a fear, but unable to swallow water because of the spasms in the throat caused by rabies

[lipazdotan]

Fact that this poor man even succeeded in putting the water in his mouth speaks of how strong his will was. RIP.

[Kristoph--]

it's really sad😢. so most likely this man is no longer alive.

[JacquelynRivera]

People used to call rabies hydrophobia because it appears to cause a fear of water. The reason is that the infection causes intense spasms in the throat when a person tries to swallow. Even the thought of swallowing water can cause spasms, making it appear that the individual is afraid of water. Spasms of the muscles in the throat and larynx occur because rabies affects the area in the brain that controls swallowing, speaking, and breathing.

Rabies is a vaccine-preventable, zoonotic, viral disease affecting the central nervous system. Once clinical symptoms appear, rabies is virtually 100% fatal. In up to 99% of cases, domestic dogs are responsible for rabies virus transmission to humans.

Clinical rabies manifests mainly in two forms, encephalitic (furious – more common) and paralytic (dumb) rabies. However, death is a signature in both types due to a lack of anti-rabies drugs.

There are only 29 reported cases of rabies survivors worldwide to date; the last case was reported in India in 2017 and of the 29 survivors, 23 of them were vaccinated with the rabies vaccine.

Even if you aren’t experiencing any hydrophobia symptoms but you have recently (in the last three months) been bitten or scratched by a warm-blooded animal, such as a dog, a fox, a racoon or a bat, it is still recommended that you visit your nearest hospital or medical centre or your GP as soon as possible, even if the bite or scratch occurred in another country. This is because post-exposure treatment can be extremely effective and prevent rabies from progressing to the stage where hydrophobia develops.

Rabies is diagnosed using a direct fluorescent antibody (DFA) test. The test detects antigens of the rabies virus in your brain tissue.

By the time the rabies virus progresses enough to cause hydrophobia, it is almost always fatal, and treatment is likely to be ineffective. A person or animal who contracts furious rabies will likely die within six days of showing symptoms and within a few days of showing symptoms of hydrophobia.

However, if the infection is treated quickly, ideally on the day of infection, the individual can have a good prognosis. Unfortunately, rabies has an incubation period of one to three months, meaning that by the time someone shows symptoms, the disease may have progressed too far, and treatment will be ineffective.

[Mohammad_Fahad_Mahmud]

Rabies is 100 percent fatal . Rest in peace 🙏🕊️ my friend . May Allah grant you Jannah .

[matthewdean]

You didn't learn that in medical school...A virologist did a review of this, Rabies effects the neurological path ways of the medulla. They are not scared of water, they lack the neurological ability to swallow.

[Askiatonyshakur]

I witnessed a child suffered this on the days before she perished. She was scratched by a cat on her face and her parents did nothing about it as they thought the wound healed but after a month symptoms showed. She was afraid of water, air, light and noise and would scream and hallucinate. She was given medicine to induced sleep but she’s sleepless for days and would wail and complained that her body is very hot inside. It was a terrifying and pitiful sight knowing that her parents beside her can do nothing but cry and regret.

[hangsthemighty]

Oh poor thing, that man is most likely gone already, RIP brother 😔

[senate]

This isn't the worst part of it by a million miles.... the death screams and wailing is haunting

[xwoddqs]

This is actually heartbreaking. We in the states complain about a lot but if we get but byvaxwild animal the hospital will treat you for ravis if they cannot trap and test the animal just to make sure we don't die from rabies. In India many citizens cannot afford treatment. I cannot imagine how painful it can be. It makes the brain swell up and hurts incredibly badly. This is why animals bite. They are scared and in pain.

[bobbybalogne]

It has nothing to do with being afraid, it doesn’t make you afraid, it causes muscle spasms

[nelsenfamily]

This is so sad 😢 it's just the beginning of the pain.

[souravjha]

Means vampire were nothing but rabies patients who weren't scared of holy water but scared of water 😳😬

[Holocaustica]

Only SIX individuals in the entire universe have experienced symptomatic rabies and lived to talk about it. I think the 1st was a teenage girl. Total miracle.

[yousifmq]

It actually has nothing to do with water, it can be any liquud or food, this reaction will happen to any attempt of swallowing
Hydrophobia is a misleading term

[mackenziebowie]

It’s not that you afraid of the water it’s that it hurts to swallow or something like that